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I always partition and format hdd's with Fdisk and Format by booting up with a Win 98 SE diskette. Have done it dozens of times.
I have 2 Identical 80 gig Western Digital HDDs with 8 meg buffer.
One has been set up and running for 12 mos, and when I partitioned it showed a total of 76.7 gigs total space. this is split between pri ans extended partition.
Now I got a second one and when I booted up in dos snd started to Fdisk it , it shows as having a total of 10.4gigs total space. that is all that is recognized.
Then I switched to the older 80 gig drive and here Fdisk also shows only 10.4 gig TOTAL space, but the Pri and Extended partitions and drives Still add up to the correct 76.7 gigs.
I run WinXP, and in MY Computer thold 80 gig still shows and acts perfect.
Any suggestions???
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